Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers. Gesamtausgabe in 14 Bänden / Studies in Epistemology

01.10.2006

Englisch

9783938793237

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Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers. Gesamtausgabe in 14 Bänden

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Nicholas Rescher

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

BD 14

Philosophie, Erkenntnistheorie

1500 bis heute

Preface Chapter 1: THE LIMITS OF COGNITIVE RELATIVISM Chapter 2: CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES Chapter 3: DEPICTION EPISTEMOLOGY Chapter 4: SPECIFICITY PRIORITIZATION AND THE PRIMACY OF THE PARTICULAR Chapter 5: ON THE WAYS AND VAGARIES OF FICTION Chapter 6: PRESUMPTION AND THE JUDGMENT OF ELITES Chapter 7: OVERSIMPLIFICATION Chapter 8: ON LEARNED IGNORANCE Chapter 9: COPING WITH COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS Chapter 10: ON IGNORANCE AND LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE Index of Names